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Senator James Inhofe, in a speech Monday to the Tulsa Metro Chamber, called the situation in Iraq “nothing short of a miracle.” In the same breath, he ruthlessly attacked the United Nations, calling the organization an “absolute disaster,” whose peacekeepers in Africa go “around teaching girls to be prostitutes.” He is asking Washington to withhold money from the peacekeeping organization.
Yet, it appears that many Americans don’t agree–65% disapprove of the way President Bush is handling Iraq and a new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 57% want the U.N. to be in charge of the Peace Agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.
